A terrific app that expands the vocabulary of your students by using sight words, letter sounds, & animation to provide a fun way to help students remember the definition of a word. Monsters scatter the letters of the word, & then after the student drags them back into place, they have to the fits words into a full sentence with the monsters acting it out. (free)
This iPad App is from Scholastic has just recently advertised their new e-book app, Storia. Parents or teachers download the app to their device, then can shop for children’s e-books on the scholastic website. The e-books range in price from .99 to 6 or 7 dollars. However, when you first sign up & log into the app, scholastic will give you 5 free e-books to start (you can’t choose them, but they are pretty good books- some fiction, some non-fiction).
Early Childhood Reading Apps
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Endless Reader
A terrific app that expands the vocabulary of your students by using sight words, letter sounds, & animation to provide a fun way to help students remember the definition of a word. Monsters scatter the letters of the word, & then after the student drags them back into place, they have to the fits words into a full sentence with the monsters acting it out. (free)
Scholastic Storia
This iPad App is from Scholastic has just recently advertised their new e-book app, Storia. Parents or teachers download the app to their device, then can shop for children’s e-books on the scholastic website. The e-books range in price from .99 to 6 or 7 dollars. However, when you first sign up & log into the app, scholastic will give you 5 free e-books to start (you can’t choose them, but they are pretty good books- some fiction, some non-fiction).
Sight Words Ninja
Students will slice their way through sight words from preschool to 3rd grade. (free)
Last Updated - May 2014